My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I paint with my back to the world
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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